μέγεθος,
Ionic dialect (not [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus)] Refs 5th c.BC+] μέγᾰθος [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus (see. below), also 3rd c.BC: Philoxenus Epigrammaticus 2.19 ] Refs 5th c.BC+], εος, τό: (μέγας):— greatness, magnitude, opposed to πλῆθος, [[ 5th c.BC: Anaxagoras Philosophus 1, etc.; πλῆθος μὲν.. ἐὰν ἀριθμητὸν ᾖ, μ. δὲ ἐὰν μετρητὸν ᾖ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1020a9. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__I in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+] always stature, of men and women, εἶδος ἀκιδνοτέρη μέγεθός τ᾽ εἰσάντα ἰδέσθαι [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.217, compare 6.152; ἐς μ. καὶ κάλλος ὁρώμενος 18.219, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Charmides” 154c; θηλειῶν ἀρετὴ σώματος κάλλος καὶ μ. 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1361a7 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: then, generally, size, μύρμηκες μεγάθεα ἔχοντες κυνῶν ἐλάσσονα [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.102; μ. λαβεῖν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.4.3; ἡ ἐπίδοσις εἰς τὸ μ. 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 560a20 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of sound, loudness, βοῆς μ. [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.126: _accusative_ as ] Refs 5th c.BC+] adverb, λίθου λάμποντος μέγαθος, ={μεγάλως}, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.44 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; but usually, in size, τεῖχος κατὰ τὸν Ἀθηνέων κύκλον.. τὸ μ. [[ [prev. author] 1.98; [δένδρεον] μέγαθος κατὰ συκέην μάλιστά κῃ [prev. author] 4.23; ὅσην δεῖ τὸ μ. τὴν πόλιν ποιεῖσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 423b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: also in plural, ποταμοὶ οὐ κατὰ τὸν Νεῖλον ἐόντες μεγάθεα [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.10, compare 1.202; σμικροὶ τὰ μεγάθεα [prev. author] 3.107; κυαμιαῖοι τὰ μ. 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Herm.” 40; μεγέθη ἔργων καὶ διαθέσεων 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “De rerum natura - Wien. Stud.” 43 G. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]